With the aim of connecting popular culture and key issues in globalization and sustainability, students will read the 2009 novel The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi (Sorry I can't provide the...

GLOBALIZATION AND SUSTAINABILITY IN CONTEXT OF THE WINDUP GIRL BY PAOLO BACIGALUPI
Table of Contents
Introduction    3
Body    4
Conclusion    6
Bibliography    7
Introduction
The Windup Girl is a science fiction, which has been acclaimed for its brilliance in context of its depiction of the potential future of human kind in the 23rd century. The setting of the novel is of a time in human civilization, when international companies, who deal in Genetically Modified Crops, dominate the global market harvest engineered plagues and use private armies to promote bio-terrorism, posing profitability as the only goal of their business. In the given novel a global-giant, AgriGen has been seen as a profitable organisation, who as a part of its global venture wants to enter Thailand, a country, who has not participated in globalization and figured out sustainable agricultural system to sustain itself. The struggle for power between the two sides, the aspects of human technical advancement and retention of certain human emotions such as jealousy, greed, lust, faith, patriotism, and rage are depicted in bright colours. Despite the multifaceted aspects of the Bacigalupi’s novel, the prominence of the dispute between globalization and sustainability has been striking, which makes the novel a canvas for in depth discussion as to what the role of sustainability and globalization be in the near future of the global human civilization.[footnoteRef:2] [2: Saba Zaidi et al. "A Linguistic Discursive Analysis of Techno-Colonialism Through the Post-cyberpunk Literature." International Journal of English Linguistics 8, no. 6 (2018): 131-138.]
Plot
The story depicts Anderson Lake, an economic hit man of AgriGen organization, who pretends to runs a factory in Thailand, which produces wound springs as an alternative of petroleum. Anderson Lake’s aims to find out the seed bank of Thailand, where the genetically viable seeds are preserved. Thailand has prevented the global organizations like AgriGen entering into the country by the preservation of the genetically viable seeds in the seed bank. Anderson Lake appoints Hock Seng as the manager of his factory and leaves to get information about the seed bank. He meets Emiko, a genetically modified human being in a sex club and he tells Emiko that there are many genetically modified human like Emiko stays in the north of the Thailand and in exchange of this information he gets information about the seed bank of Thailand.[footnoteRef:3] [3: Mengtian Sun, "Imagining Globalization in Paolo Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl and Chen Qiufan's The Waste Tide." Science Fiction Studies 46, no. 2 (2019): 289-306.]
Anderson Lake make an alliance with Akkarat the trade minister of Thailand that they will assassinate Pracha the environment minister so that they AgriGen can enter into Thailand and sell their gene hacked seeds. It will be beneficial for Akkarat as the trade minister. Pracha will not be able to make them stop if they kill him. They also plan to include Somdet Chaopraya to get the political support, as he is the regent of the child queen of Thailand. Anderson Lake takes Somdet to Emiko to make alliance with him. Somdet rapes Emiko and she kills Somdet to avenge her rape.[footnoteRef:4] Jaidee Rojjanasukchai is an officer of environment ministry, who prevents the global organizations from entering into the market of Thailand with their genetically modified crops....